Synonyms of bilking

bilking

verb

present participle of bilk

as in cheating

to rob by the use of trickery or threats

an investigation revealed that the garage had been bilking motorists for repairs that had never been made

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cheating
• squeezing
• hustling
• plucking
• stinging
• screwing
• defrauding
• beating
• swindling
• sticking
• fleecing
• deceiving
• conning
• victimizing
• doing
• shortchanging
• tricking
• mulcting
• bleeding
• suckering
• exploiting
• stiffing
• rooking
• diddling
• shorting
• reaming
• fiddling
• chiseling
• cozening
• fooling
• gaffing
• betraying
• shaking down
• extorting
• hosing
• skinning
• ripping off
• nobbling
• flimflamming
• doing in
• euchring
• thimblerigging
• chousing
• overcharging
• gouging
• taking for a ride
• taking to the cleaners
• duping
• wrenching
• milking
• selling a bill of goods to
• skunking
• clipping
• wringing
• gulling
• soaking
• nicking
• wresting
• bamboozling
• bitching
• double-crossing
• roping (in)
• fast-talking

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bilking

Sophisticated online fraud schemes, operating from industrial-scale scam centers in Southeast Asia, are bilking Americans out of billions of dollars each year. — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2026

Through letters, Ulisses charms lonely women, bilking them of money and possessions. — Hamilton Cain, Time, 7 July 2026

Elsaid is accused of bilking the medical assistance program out of over $182,000, while Agwa is accused of swindling over $94,000 from the program. — Riley Moser, CBS News, 23 June 2026

In 2019, a couple was charged with embezzlement and exploiting the elderly for bilking buyers in six Western North Carolina counties out of millions of dollars for log homes. — Amber Gaudet, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2026

Murdaugh, 57, will remain in prison, however, after being sentenced on dozens of state and federal charges for bilking millions from his former law firm and clients for more than a decade. — Pilar Melendez, NBC news, 14 May 2026

Yassin and Stevens are the first drivers to face any criminal repercussions for allegedly bilking the program. — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 11 Feb. 2026

Former Jackson Health Foundation COO Charmaine Gatlin pled guilty to bilking millions in charity funds. — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 15 Dec. 2025

Holmes was convicted in 2022 of four counts of felony fraud for bilking investors in her now-defunct Palo Alto blood-testing startup out of hundreds of millions of dollars via false claims about the technology. — Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025